Formosa Plastics Corporation, U.S.A.
Sales Representative
3 months ago
Livingston
Job Description SALES REPRESENTATIVE (Export Sales) Position Objective: Maximize Polyolefins division export sales. Generate new business based on company strategy and maximize business with existing customers. Be consistent with Formosa Corporate Strategy and Polyolefins Business Division focus and goals. Major Areas of Accountability: • Strategic Sales Implementation: Establish and coordinate on strategies for growth and business/product development. Present feedback on market strategies, intelligence, and competition. Recommend market strategies and pricing to impact customer product and profitability mix. Coordinate as liaison to initiate, negotiate, facilitate business practices, such as prices, credit terms, and sales contracts; solicit sales orders and finalize/execute contracts., • Sales Prospecting: Coordinate with marketing/business development to create, recommend, and implement sales strategic plans and tactics. Develop precontract plan, contact decision maker, and initiate the sales solicitation process., • Customer Contacts and Relationships: Develop and sustain consistently high-quality customer relationships. Facilitate, collaborate, and coordinate internally to implement and reinforce customer expectations, commitments, and Formosa Brand., • Marketing and Technical Support: Routinely research market intelligence on competitive dynamics and develop pricing, competitive sales, and marketing planning and actions. Coordinate with Technical Service for technical support to customers, including mediating and facilitating resolution on product quality complaints and product development., • Sales Follow Up and Customer Service: Consistently, and in a timely manner, coordinate, facilitate, and mediate on price adjustments or payment discrepancies, on resolution of customer complaints and customer service issues., • Non-prime Sales: Help deplete non-prime inventory based on marketing strategy for each month., • REACH: Manage REACH compliance by customers to facilitate UK and European Union countries. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. • 3 - 7 years minimum experience in a job related field. Preferably related to petrochemicals, • Must be an excellent communicator and skilled in English verbal comprehension and report writing skills., • Familiarity with plastics industry, technical processes, and terminology., • Ability to coordinate, facilitate, and mediate solutions to common inquiries from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community., • Ability to write speeches and articles for publication that conforms to prescribed style and format., • Ability to effectively present information to top management, public groups, and/or boards of directors., • Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference., • Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations., • Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions., • Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables., • Ability to read critically and comprehend economic information and publications related to the industry and market., • Occasional Travel to meet with customers., • Must have regular, reliable attendance as well as the ability to work outside the regular schedule as required., • Must perform all duties to the same standards while travelling as would be expected in the office., • Ability to handle average stress and multi-task., • Must have good oral and written communication skills.Company DescriptionFounded in 1978, Formosa Plastics Corporation, U.S.A. (Formosa Plastics) is a growing, vertically-integrated supplier of plastic resins and petrochemicals. With annual revenues of more than $5 billion, we employ over 2,800 people who operate 20 production units in six business divisions - Olefins, Polyolefins, Vinyl, Specialty Polyvinyl Chloride, Chlor-Alkali, and Oil & Gas. Formosa Plastics offers a full line of polyvinyl chloride, polyethylene and polypropylene resins, caustic soda and other petrochemicals that deliver the consistency, performance and quality that customers demand. We market our polypropylene and polyethylene resins under the Formolene® tradename; we market our suspension PVC and specialty (dispersion) PVC resins under the Formolon® tradename. We also produce and sell caustic soda, ethylene dichloride, commercial bleach and hydrochloric acid. We are committed to supplying the highest quality products and services to our customers, providing a safe and healthy workplace for our employees and contributing to the quality of life in the communities where we operate. This commitment is made possible through our dedicated people, consistent products, continued protection of the environment and ongoing investments in new product development, quality control systems and safe, modern and energy-efficient production facilities. Formosa Plastics is a privately held company headquartered in Livingston, New Jersey. Our core business, producing plastic resins and petrochemicals, takes place at three wholly-owned chemical manufacturing subsidiaries located in Delaware City, Delaware, Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Point Comfort, Texas.Founded in 1978, Formosa Plastics Corporation, U.S.A. (Formosa Plastics) is a growing, vertically-integrated supplier of plastic resins and petrochemicals. With annual revenues of more than $5 billion, we employ over 2,800 people who operate 20 production units in six business divisions - Olefins, Polyolefins, Vinyl, Specialty Polyvinyl Chloride, Chlor-Alkali, and Oil & Gas.\r\n\r\nFormosa Plastics offers a full line of polyvinyl chloride, polyethylene and polypropylene resins, caustic soda and other petrochemicals that deliver the consistency, performance and quality that customers demand. We market our polypropylene and polyethylene resins under the Formolene® tradename; we market our suspension PVC and specialty (dispersion) PVC resins under the Formolon® tradename. We also produce and sell caustic soda, ethylene dichloride, commercial bleach and hydrochloric acid.\r\n\r\nWe are committed to supplying the highest quality products and services to our customers, providing a safe and healthy workplace for our employees and contributing to the quality of life in the communities where we operate. This commitment is made possible through our dedicated people, consistent products, continued protection of the environment and ongoing investments in new product development, quality control systems and safe, modern and energy-efficient production facilities.\r\n\r\nFormosa Plastics is a privately held company headquartered in Livingston, New Jersey. Our core business, producing plastic resins and petrochemicals, takes place at three wholly-owned chemical manufacturing subsidiaries located in Delaware City, Delaware, Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Point Comfort, Texas.
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